XMOS is a

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that develops audio products and multicore microcontrollers.

Company history

XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta. It received seed funding from the

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enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund. The name XMOS is a loose reference to Inmos. Some concepts found in XMOS technology (such as channels and threads) are part of the

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legacy. In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from

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, and

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. It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH,

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, and Xilinx Inc. In September 2017, XMOS secured $15M in an investment round lead by

Infineon Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicond ...

. In July 2017, XMOS acquired SETEM, a company that specialises in audio algorithms for source separation.

References

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